Dustmite + Visual D

[Michelle Long]

On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 07:16:19 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
>
>
> On 06/11/2018 04:09, Michelle Long wrote:
>> D:\Projects\Game\Game\Game.dustmite\..\..\..\..\D\Libraries\pegged\dynamic\grammar.d:
>> The process cannot access the file because it is being used by 
>> another
>> process.
>> 
>
> I can reproduce it now, but it has nothing to do with 
> links/junctions.
>
> The problem is that the shown file is outside of the project 
> folder hierarchy. Visual D tries to recreate the projects 
> folder structure, so it copies
>
> D:\Projects\Game\Game\Game\..\..\..\..\D\Libraries\pegged\dynamic\grammar.d
>
> to
>
> D:\Projects\Game\Game\Game.dustmite\..\..\..\..\D\Libraries\pegged\dynamic\grammar.d
>
> which is the same file!
>
> A simple workaround is to use a junction in the project folder 
> to access pegged.
>
> I guess Visual D should not copy files outside of the project 
> folder, but they are also not subject to dustmite in that case.
>
> Alternatively, the dustmite directory could be created in a 
> common parent folder for all files, but that doesn't work for 
> files distributed over different drives.

whoo! ;) That dogged a bullet! Glad you were able to figure it 
out.

I am using a junction!

I have my libs in D\Libraries.

In my project I have a junction that points to it.

I dragged that junction to VS to add the files.

So they don't exist at the same place.

Visual D seems to copy some of the files.

Maybe the better solution would just be to delay and repeat.

If somehow it is copying two files simultaneously then the delay 
and retry might a few times will just copy it twice(it would have 
to override it).

Or maybe just check if the file already exists and avoid copying 
it? (although the grammar.d file that it complained about was 
never copied, so this probably won't work)

Maybe you could simply record any failures and try them at the 
end.

Here I'm assuming the locking is temporary and will disappear 
quickly enough given that I can never see the file being locked.